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Class clowns make the best bloggers

August 14, 2008 by John Dilbeck
Filed under: Attracting Visitors, Blogging 

Jonathan Morrow wrote an interesting article on Copyblogger called How to Stop Being Invisible and I think you will find it both educational and interesting.

You know the feeling of working hard, writing your best, and pouring everything you know into your blog, only to feel like nobody knows you exist.

Jonathan addresses this issue and one of the things he says is:

We’ve established that valedictorians make lousy bloggers because they’re boring, and class clowns rule the blogosphere because they’ve become adept at getting noticed. But how do class clowns do it? And why are we so apt to pay attention to them in school?

In one word: value.

I admit that I fit the boring valedictorian role, even though I left high school a year early to attend Georgia Tech and transferred enough credits back to high school to graduate. I wasn’t the valedictorian, but I was darn close.

So, I admit it. I’m boring.

I tend to pass along information, but I really don’t know how to attract attention. I’m not the type to walk into a crowd and try to get people looking at me, but isn’t that exactly what we want when we write a blog or create a website.

“Hey! Look at me!”

One of the surprising things in Jonathan’s article is this:

Blogs are a diversion.

That thought never once occurred to me.

I think of reading blogs as working, not as a way to procrastinate and get away from working for a few minutes.

So, my take-away lesson from Jonathan’s article is that I need to be a bit more entertaining and a little less serious in my writing.

What do you think?

Are you looking for entertainment or education when reading a blog that talks about affiliate marketing?

I welcome your opinions and ideas.

Act on your dream!

JD

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